It was the third minute of stoppage time of England and Colombia’s Round of 16 match, and England led 1-0. Mateus Uribe had just fired in a long-range shot that England’s Jordan Pickford saved, giving Colombia a corner kick.
Listen to Andres Cantor gloriously call Colombia’s game-tying goal vs. England
Yerry Mina got his third of the World Cup to tie it up in the 93rd minute.
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The ball was sent in, Yerry Mina rose, headed down powerfully, and Colombia had, miraculously, leveled the game. It was Mina’s third goal of the World Cup, a wild number for a defender, and that’s all well and good but we all need to pause and listen to Telemundo announcer Andres Cantor call this goal.
This is Peak Cantor. This is 8 Cantors out of a possible 5 Cantors. Perhaps no announcer alive better captures the spirit of this game, with its long periods of waiting, movement, biding time, and then that rapturous moment of a goal being scored.
Cantor understood the stakes in this game, the moment, the tension that had been building, and when Mina headed home: GOOOOOLLLLLLLL.
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